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MAHAVAGGA.
cotton-cloth, or as good as new, or out of cloth1, or out of (rags) taken from the dust-heap, or out of odd bits picked up in the bazaar3: when the decision (by the presiding Bhikkhu as to which robes he will take for himself) has not (merely) been made (but carried out): when there has been no talk about (the merit acquired by offering a Kathina): when the gift is not merely a temporary one: when the ceremony has not been postponed: when it has not been necessary to abandon the ceremony: when the ceremony has not fallen through: when (in the choice made by the presiding Bhikkhu) the upper robes have not been left out, nor the under robes, nor the waist-cloths: when not one of the five parts of the robe have been omitted in the cutting out: when (the ceremony has been presided over) by one Bhikkhu. And also when, after the Kathina ceremony has been (otherwise) normally performed, the ratification has been given by the (whole Samgha) dwelling within the boundary.
'In these cases, O Bhikkhus, the Kathina ceremony has been duly held.'
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VII, 1, 7.
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1. 7. 'Now when, O Bhikkhus, is the Kathina (that is to say, the privileges allowed after the Kathina ceremony) suspended?
'Pilotikâyâ 'ti hata-vatthaka-sâtakena (B.).
Pamsukulenâ 'ti te-vîsatiyâ khettesu uppanna-pamsukulena. Pâpanikenâ 'ti âpana-dvâre patita-pilotikam gahetvâ kathinatthâya deti, tenâpi vallatîti attho (B.). Compare VIII, 14, 2.
The new chapter should have begun here, and not with the next section as printed in the text.
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| SR No. | 007684 |
| Book Title | Vinaya Texts |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2523 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |